Oliver Tambo: Holding the anti-apartheid movement together
Oliver Reginald Tambo was, as acting president of the African National Congress (ANC), a principal spokesman for the Black African opposition to apartheid in South...
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George Jackson: Soledad Brother
George Lester Jackson was an African-American political revolutionary, prisoners’ rights activist, author, a member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family while incarcerated. His life...
Queen Mother Moore: 20th Century Woman Warrior
“Our purpose in life is to leave a legacy for our children and our children’s children. For this reason, we must correct history that at...
Vernon Johns: “Father of the Civil Rights Movement”
Vernon Napoleon Johns (April 22, 1892 – June 11, 1965) was a brilliant, uncompromising Baptist preacher whose life helped lay the moral and intellectual groundwork...
Mary Elizabeth Carnegie: Nursing Legend
Mary Elizabeth Carnegie was a ground-breaking nurse, educator, and author who championed the cause of African American nurses. She was the first Black nurse to serve as...
Lucy Craft Laney: The Dark Vestal Virgin
Lucy Craft Laney was an early African-American educator who in 1883 founded the first school for black children in Augusta, Georgia, which became known as...
Augusta Savage: African-American Sculptor
“I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess,...
James Cameron: The only known survivor of a lynching
[dropcap size=small]J[/dropcap]ames Cameron survived being lynched from a maple tree in Marion, Indiana, when he was sixteen years old. Cameron, who kept a piece of...
Dr. Leonard Jeffries: Pan-African Educator
“Whoever controls the images, controls your self-esteem, self-respect and self-development. Whoever controls the history, controls the vision.” ~Dr. Leonard Jeffries Leonard Jeffries, a political scientist,...
Julian Bond: Pioneer Activist and Co-Founder of S.N.C.C.
Born Horace Julian Bond on January 14, 1940, in Nashville, Tennessee, Julian Bond was a scholar, poet, former legislator, and activist in the African American...